'You Chose Wrong' Catalogs Every Possible Way To Die In 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books

If you’re like us, you grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books and you also touch yourself. (Shhh, it’s okay. We won’t judge.) The first of those two things was the second-person perspective, slightly interactive literary style pioneered by Edward Packard in the mid 1970s. The second thing was pioneered by your mom.

Now Andrew Weiss is compiling all the ways to die in Choose Your Own Adventure and similar books in the single serving Tumblr You Chose Wrong. He’s going through his old collection of Choose Your Own Adventure, Interplanetary Spy, and Fighting Fantasy books and regularly adding to the website.

Weiss adds that he’s also learned a valuable lesson from this project, which I’ll admit is the same lesson these books taught me: “Be sure to mark your place before committing to even the most remotely risky action.” Thanks for making me the paranoid mess I am today, Choose Your Own Adventure.

Check out some of our favorite endings from You Chose Wrong below. Your adventure ends here.